Posted on December 19, 2018
Dear readers, am on a break and may not be doing too much writing over the next few days. (You’ll see articles I’ve written earlier come up as and when they are published.) Wishing you all a very happy 2019. Cheers.
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Baradwaj Rangan 
Deepa
December 19, 2018
Wishing you a great year ahead BR. And happy vacation. Take care.
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Ashwin Kumar
December 19, 2018
Enjoy your break!
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Padawan
December 20, 2018
Happy New Year Saar!
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sanjana
December 20, 2018
Have a nice time.
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Srinivas R
December 20, 2018
Happy New Year everyone !!!
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sanjay2706
December 20, 2018
Dear BR,
Thanks for another year of great writing. Enjoy your break.
Are you also on a break from reading? Coz I have some scripts to share to you. 😛
Cheers,
Sanjay
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manju
December 20, 2018
I was waiting for your ‘best movies of the year’ post. Anyways, enjoy your holidays.
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bellurramki
December 20, 2018
Dear BR, waiting to see you soon on the silver screen in the new year!
Enjoy your much deserved and hard earned holiday! Have a memorable 2019!
Happy NEW YEAR to all the CINEMA & BR buffs!
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Madan
December 20, 2018
Happy 2019 all.
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Priya Arun
December 20, 2018
Happy New Year BRangan saab! Enjoy your (well-deserved) break and come back all charged. Where ever you will be, start your year with this mangalakaramaana blessing.
https://goo.gl/images/3rwbzG
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praneshp
December 20, 2018
Congratulations on your film debut(?)
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(Original) venkatesh
December 20, 2018
Have a good one folks.
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sahiravik
December 20, 2018
You need a break, Mr. Rangan! Have fun.
Let’s discuss Zero and Simmba on our own, then, shall we?
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Rocky
December 20, 2018
Merry X-Mas and a very Happy New Year to everyone here .
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Sutheesh Kumar
December 21, 2018
Happy 2019 BR☺️ and Congratulations on your silver screen debut.
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Srinivas R
December 21, 2018
Silver Screen Debut? Eagerly awaiting more updates. Which movie?
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Vidya Ramesh
December 21, 2018
Happy new year Mr BR!.have a nice holiday. You have been spared the sadness of watching Zero.. can someone tell me that I will be alright. The movie second half feels like Himanshu Sharma smoked weed and wrote it BR.. it’s godawful. Iam sorry for venting off topic here but this is free therapy.. I am done screaming into a void.
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praneshp
December 21, 2018
@Srinivas R one of the movies this weekend! Go see everything 🙂
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Recovering Macaulay perapulla
December 22, 2018
Ennama thamizh pinniteenga..ayya br 🙂 loved that you were part of this fascinating experiment called seethakathi. I hope you write at length about the movie. I loved it. It was a beautiful elegy to the way art killed business. Loved how director ram talked about art being a swear word.
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Anu Warrier
December 22, 2018
Have a great holiday, BR.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to BR and everyone else here.
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Hakimokimo
December 22, 2018
Can we use this thread to discuss Zero?
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brangan
December 23, 2018
Hakimokimo: Will put up a review thread soon. We can discuss the film there.
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AK
December 23, 2018
The one week where 9 movies across languages releases and you arent here to review them! Just kidding! Happy holidays 🙂
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Eswar
December 23, 2018
Happy holidays BR. Enjoy your break.
Happy Holiday Season to everyone here.
BR’s best film of 2018 is out in YouTube. Hope its okay to share here:
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The Rational Mum
December 31, 2018
Happy Happy New Year to you BR. And to the wonderful people who read and comment and make life exciting for absentia movie buffs like me. I am hoping there will be a Top 10 Hindi movies of the year list too. Pretty please.
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Rocky
December 31, 2018
Wishing every one at BR’s Blog a very happy and healthy New Year 2019.
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hakimokimo
December 31, 2018
Happy new year for everyone.
Discovering this blog was the best thing happened to me in 2018.
BR you have now fans club from Algeria
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Jayram
December 31, 2018
Happy New Year to BR and everyone!
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Sutheesh Kumar
January 1, 2019
BR, wish you and everyone here a great 2019☺️
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ramitbajaj01
January 1, 2019
Happy new year all 🙂
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MANK
January 1, 2019
Happy new year everybody. Wish you peace , prosperity and good time at the movies .
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MANK
January 1, 2019
The year begins on a sad note with the passing away off Kader Khan
A good actor and wonderful writer who contributed a lot to the superstardom of Amitabh Bachchan dialogues like Aisa to aadmi life mein do heech time bhaagta hai… Olympic ka race ho ya phir police ka case ho. , will forever remain etched in memory. RIP
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An Jo
January 2, 2019
In four or five or six months’ time I was called by Manmohan Desai. He was making the film Roti. So he was fed up with some Urdu writers. He said, “I hate this language. These writers, they write all proverbs and muhaavrahs (figures of speech) and similes. I want my colloquial language. Nobody can write.”
http://www.haham.net/kader_khan_interview.htm
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Srinivas R
January 2, 2019
Thanks for sharing this An Jo. Really enjoyed reading it. Most of the details that is not really out there in popular media.
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An Jo
January 5, 2019
There’s a reason why such kind of folks are dwindling in this age of BS social media/instagram/twitter..and what have you…
Where do you get folks having such deep thoughts? Look at what he said in the interview. He is interested in making folks read the holy book and ASK the Maulvis to point that out in the book!! Stunning! What a noble — which he’s not getting paid for anyway — endeavor!
I guess these things have to be intrinsic. You learn from life; you get beaten in life — AND then you write.
Kader Saab: RIP — Salute..
However, Bollywood biggies didn’t care to call him once during his ill-health. Son Sarfaraz Khan is upset with the way Hindi film industry has responded to the news of Kader Khan’s demise.
“There are so many people in the film industry whom my father was close to. But the one person that my father loved the most was Bachchan saab (Amitabh Bachchan). I’d ask my father whom he missed the most from the film industry and the answer promptly would be Bachchan Saab. And I know the love was mutual. I want Bachchan saab to know that my father spoke about him till the end,” said the doting son emotionally.
https://www.indiatvnews.com/entertainment/celebrities-kader-khan-remembered-amitabh-bachchan-till-end-reveals-son-sarfa
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An Jo
January 13, 2019
I finished watching YZ, the marathi movie on NETFLIX US. A stunner of a movie: Especially the second half. Sagar Deshmukh is fantastic as the virgin-guy with mid-life crises. The first half is not that great, it is good. The second half, literally soars as he embarks on a journey of self-discovery. What characters! Akshay Tanksale as the philosopher BATTIS is a ‘havoc.’ Sai Tamhankar as the eternally-devoted Parnarekha is superb in her closeted avatar; a far-cry from the MILF in Hunter. Kamudi Walokar as Aarti is good. Parna Pethe as Antara is one symbol of eroticism — check out her Shakuntala dance and it raises the temperature like anything! [The entire song is in Sankskrit and by God, this song puts ALL the Sunny Leone clips in your New [folder] to shame]. Mukta Barve as Sayali is great in her tiny role. Nandita Joag is super as Sagar’s Moushi.
Highly, highly recommended. Add a couple of pints of GLEN when watching it, and the experience is terrific!
I have also provided a link to the MUST-WATCH marathi movies. I agree with the list..
Gem of a movie, highly, highly recommended.
And the icing on cake; my fav Pune never looked this good on screen…
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MANK
January 23, 2019
A New Endeavor
On the eve of our country’s 70th republic day . Something strange has happened to me. I have gone and done something I thought I would never do, something that I have resisted doing for a long time : to start a blog of my own. So here is my little Cyber republic. I haven’t the faintest idea what exactly my ambitions are for the blog , how prolific I could be,etc etc…, guess I will figure it out as I go along. I heartily welcome my Guru Dronacharya : Baradwaj Rangan and all you good people here to my blog. It goes without saying that I will continue to post on this blog. Me, the writer was born here, was nourished here and will continue to stay here
My first post is dedicated to the 3 great loves of my life: my Mother , Motherland and movies. Hope you like it
Mathrudevo bhava, jai hind and cinema zindabad
https://manksjoint.home.blog/2019/01/20/of-movies-mothers-and-motherland/
Thanks
MANK
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